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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Standing half a football field away and with more than a dozen offensive and defensive linemen blocking his view, Cam Little couldn’t see the ball clear the crossbar. But when his Jacksonville Jaguars teammates started screaming and scrambling, Little knew the outcome: a 70-yard field goal that he initially thought set an NFL record. He later learned it wouldn’t count because it happened in a preseason game, a 31-25 loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday night.“It does (stink),” he said. “That means we just have to go out there and make it again.”Little nailed a 70-yarder to…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — CeeDee Lamb took a big hit and committed a penalty in the Dallas Cowboys’ preseason opener — even though the star receiver wasn’t playing.A sprinting official ran straight into Lamb’s back when the four-time Pro Bowl wideout wandered too close to the field during the second quarter of the Cowboys’ 31-21 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Saturday night, resulting in a 15-yard penalty to Dallas for making contact with an official.Dressed in street clothes, Lamb was watching Joe Milton’s deep pass to Jonathan Mingo and signaling to his teammates while standing in the white…

The AI industry is always talking about breakthroughs in intelligence and benchmark wins, but the biggest story this week is GPT-5 — and how easy it is to use for casual users not paying attention to every development.OpenAI promotes the new and improved capabilities of every iteration of its flagship model. When OpenAI released GPT-4, it said the model “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.” GPT-4.5, meanwhile, improved the model’s “ability to recognize patterns, draw connections, and generate creative insights without reasoning.”GPT-5, OpenAI said on Thursday, marks “a significant leap in intelligence over all our previous models,…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pete Alonso hit his 252nd career home run Saturday night, tying the New York Mets record held by Darryl Strawberry for 37 years.Alonso connected against Milwaukee Brewers starter Tobias Myers leading off the second inning for his 26th homer this season, giving the Mets a 1-0 lead. The 413-foot shot to left-center came on a 1-2 fastball at the top of the strike zone.It was Alonso’s fourth homer in eight games, since he went deep Aug. 1 against San Francisco to end an 0-for-19 slump.“It means a lot. A mark that’s not easy to get,” Mets manager…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood had a three-shot swing go against him early and a two-shot swing cost him on the final hole Saturday in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He did enough right in between for a 1-under 69 and a one-shot lead over Justin Rose as he goes for his first PGA Tour title.If that wasn’t enough, Scottie Scheffler had a huge presence only two shots back.Still, those two holes were a reminder to Fleetwood that 18 holes can feel a long way off at the TPC Southwind. There figures to be plenty of pressure at the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera tore an Achilles tendon while going after a flyball at the New York Yankees’ Old-Timers’ Day game on Saturday and needs surgery.Agent Fern Cuza said the 55-year-old closer, baseball’s career leader in saves, will have the operation within a week.In his lone at-bat, Rivera singled off former teammate Andy Pettitte and easily ran to first base. During an at-bat by Willie Randolph, Rivera took a step and fell to the ground in shallow center field behind second base.The Yankees restored the Old-Timers’ Day game for the first time since 2019.“It was…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Less than 24 hours after Shedeur Sanders’ impressive NFL debut, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski still wasn’t ready to answer the question most on the mind of Cleveland fans.Will Sanders start working with the first-team offense leading into next Saturday’s second preseason game at Philadelphia?“We need to get through the next couple of days from an injury standpoint and see where everybody is,” Stefanski said Saturday. “I’m really focused on all of our quarterbacks’ development and every single one of these reps last night, how important they are. So that’s what I’m focused on more than anything.”Sanders played…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The emotions hit J.J. McCarthy just before he took the field for the Minnesota Vikings.One day shy of the one-year anniversary of the quarterback’s rookie season being ended by a torn meniscus in his right knee, McCarthy was back.Finally.“I had a little teardrop, I’m not going to lie,” McCarthy said after the Vikings’ 20-10 victory over the Houston Texans on Saturday. “Being out there before the national anthem. This game is the best game in the world and to be out there with this kind of group, with this coaching staff … it was absolutely terrific.”McCarthy played…

Right-hander Luis Severino, who recently has pitched like the high-priced free agent the Athletics signed in the offseason, was placed on the 15-day injured list Saturday because of a left oblique strain.The move is retroactive to Wednesday.The A’s called up left-hander Hogan Harris from Triple-A Las Vegas in a corresponding transaction.Severino signed a $67 million, three-year contract in December with the A’s, but he can opt out after next season. It was largest-ever contract for the typically low-spending A’s, though they since made other similar deals with Brent Rooker ( $60 million over five years ) and Lawrence Butler (…

When an infant cries, parents frequently wonder whether they should soothe the baby or let the baby calm itself down. If they respond to every sob, won’t the baby cry more? Isn’t that spoiling the baby?I hear these questions a lot as a professor of child development and family science. The notion of spoiling a baby remains common in the U.S., despite evidence that infants who have parents who respond to their needs are better at calming themselves down later in life.Many of the students I teach say that their parents resisted calming their cries and that they turned out…